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GoDaddy enters the LEB market
I just saw an announcement on the new GoDaddy cloud servers with one in the LEB range. 30 day free trial. I'll be grabbing one to try out.
Looks like KVM though I don't see anything on the location.
- 512MB Memory
- 1 CORE Processor
- 20GB SSD Disk
- 1TB Transfer
- $5.00 /month
- ($0.0074 /hour)
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Stay tuned for the ultimate summer host adventure!
Why do GoDaddy even still exist?
Fairly expensive. I doubt the LEB market has much to worry about. GoDaddy targets a certain demographic, I doubt they'd go much cheaper as they have a big marketing budget to fund.
Looks like locations are Ashburn, VA and Phoenix AZ - US-only.
Wondering who is the provider, if it is Singlehop or Softlayer it could be good.
Woah this is huge. Godaddy is the largest domain registrar and one of the largest hosts in the world. This is very bad for the competition - vultr, digitalocean etc.
This is cheap for godaddy. This is matching vultr, digitalocean on prices.
Who believe Godaddy as hosting provider?
Ashburn:
Phoenix:
I'm not certain they're sharing a customer base, tbh.
True, but this really smells like "let's be another Digital Ocean" to me. Identical specs.
For extra fun, look at the FAQ and compare here:
https://www.digitalocean.com/help/technical/general/
I'm not even upset. Obviously, they felt like we're doing something right. That's a compliment.
They're super late to the party, and at first glance I can't see any edge, why would I (as a client) leave DO or Vultr or Linode and go to GoDaddy? Just for the sake of moving my applications?
I think it's more likely that they're trying to keep existing customers in-house by giving them options. Outgrowing their shared hosting is not difficult, unfortunately. This gives people something that they can graduate to in house (something more reasonable than their other options), which means GoDaddy can probably charge for a migration to it as well.
Yep.
GD's marketing edge is their vast customer base of people who've registered domains with them. If someone was just starting DO 2.0 (er, 3.0, I guess Vultr was 2.0) then they wouldn't have much of a chance but GD has a semi-captive, mostly unsophisticated audience.
I have seen tons of website hosted in GoDaddy shared hosting. They're biggest domain registrar and have reach to most number of customers.
That makes sense, considering GoDaddy is the most obnoxious upseller I've ever encountered...
Back in the day when I was still purchasing domains from them, if you weren't careful enough during checkout, you'd end up also buying a fridge and a washing machine along with your domain name.
Friend of mine started a non-tech-related business. He's not a tech guy. He bought his domain and shared hosting from GoDaddy because (a) he remembered the name, and (b) everything was very easy to setup - just step through their forms. He was probably lead by the nose and could do better elsewhere, but essentially that's the GoDaddy market - people who just want to setup a simple site and aren't techies.
wow, the highest plan with 4 cores only.
Pricing looks good and they don't have much competition in Ashburn which is a very important location.
I'm not going to trust GoDady, but the product could be good.
What networks are they using for those servers?
The "54 second provisioning" is pretty cheeky...one second faster.
However will you respond to this competitive threat?
Awesome, building one right now
-edit- So far so good! Love that they have a FreeBSD 10.2 image, I started off with a $5/month server (30 days free I think?) in Ashburn, VA and I like it so far.
Why? I mean what is the advantage compared to NYC, NJ or similar?
And their GUI is a mess ,which goes very well with their upselling tactics .
Don't buy from GoDaddy. They are bad folks.
Here's a Geekbench of the $5/month Godaddy server:
http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/5745743
Some serverbear benchmarks: ashburn and phoenix.
@jarland
Holy crap godaddy did just rip digital oceans faq's page - LMAO thats horrible.
It's a mayor hub.
The name is not as flashy as New York City and I think that's a factor which has influenced other "marketing-heavy" cloud providers like DigitalOcean to delay/avoid developments there.
Amazon has several datacenters in Ashburn for example, and most of the big global networks and CDNs have presence there.
Psych Network build a new datacenter in Ashburn, also. I'm getting good speeds from here to Canada!